Corpses Quote by Cesare Pavese Download Open image “A corpse is what's left after waking too often.” — Cesare Pavese ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Corpses Left Waking
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Death is the day it doesnt dawn on you to wake up. In fact, many people predecease themselves. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead. — John Banville Copy Share Image
Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is;… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile we arrived at our lane and the sight of the olive tree rubbed me the wrong way. I began to see that no… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.) — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics. — Gig Young Copy Share Image
The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Of course I think it's a movie for everybody [Insane Farting Corpse], but that's probably just because it's a movie for me. — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
“You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theaters, and it's way too… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Alas, poor Yorick! How surprised he would be to see how his counterpart of today is whisked off to a funeral parlor and is… — Jessica Mitford Copy Share Image
Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be cluttered with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Reading the script [Insane Farting Corpse], by page two or three, I felt that way. I thought, I'm in. It was so beautiful and… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image